Improvement in curd-drainers



J. WILDER.

CURD-DRAINERS. No.175.804.

N'PnEfls, PHOTO-LITNOGRAPHER. WASHINGTEN, D C

Patented April, 1876..

UNITED STATES PATENT O EIoE.

JONA WILDER, OF wEsT RUPERT, VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CURD-DRAINERS.

Specification ftrming part of Letters Patent No. 175,804, dated April 4, 1876; application filed January 29, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it knownthat I. JONAS WILDER, of West ltupert,in the county of Bennington and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cheese-Curd Drainer, of which the following is a specification Figure l is a top view of my improved drainer, part of the screen being broken away.

so constructed that it may be readily cleaned and kept clean, and which shall be simple in construction and convenient in use. The invention consists in a cheese-curd drainer in which the sheet-metal lining passes through the discharge-slot in its bottom, and is secured to or formed solid with the discharge-spout, and in the detachable screen, made in sections, in combination with the drainer and the discharge-spout, as hereinafter fully described.

A is the wooden box or body of the drainer, which is supported upon legs B, of such a length as to support the drainer at a convenient height. The bottom of the box A has a longitudinal slot formed through its middle part to form a passage for the escape of the whey. The box A is provided with a sheetmetal lining, U. Thelining U is slit longitudinally through its center, and its edges are passed down through the slot in the bottom of the box A, and are bent upward and secured to the under side of the said bottom. I) is the spout to conduct the whey away.

The spout D is made of sheet metal, and its edges are turned outward and are soldered to the turned-out edges of the bottom of the lining O, so that there may be no seam between the lining G and the spout D for the whey to lodge in and sour. The spout D may be strengthened by bands E, passed beneath it and secured to the box A. The spout D may be made a little deeper at its discharge-end, to cause the whey to run off freely. This same thing may be accomplished by making the legs B at the discharge-end a little shorter than the others, but I prefer the arrangement first described, as it allows the drainer to stand level. The discharge-end of the spout 1) may be provided with agate, stop-cock, or other device to enable it to be closed when desired. The spout D may be made in one piece with the lining (J if desired. F are the screens or strainers, which are made of finelyperforated sheet metal or fine wire-gauze, attached to a sheet-metal frame, which is fitted into the slot in the bottom of the drainer A 0..

J ON AS WILDE R.

Witnesses JAMES T. GRAHAM,

T. B. MosHER. 

